66. Triptych, Karin Slaughter

398 páginas

When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated. As a one-off killing it's shocking, but when it becomes clear that it's just the latest in a series of similar attacks, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in, and Ormewood is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - a man he instinctively dislikes. But then, only twenty-four hours later, the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard. And, it seems the mystery behind Monroe's death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried...

65. Miranda's Big Mistake, Jill Mansell

503 páginas

Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness Miranda is thrilled when she meets Greg at a cocktail party. He's gorgeous, he's funny - and he's very keen. Just what a girl needs to put some sparkle in her life. Heavens, he's practically perfect! Greg likes Miranda a lot. She's young, she's pretty, and she never talks about babies. Of course he hasn't told her everything about himself - even the sweetest girls can be a bit funny about a man who's just left his newly pregnant wife. But there's no way she's going to find out - or is there? Luckily for Miranda men are like buses - you don't see any for ages then three come along at once. She just needs to catch the right one...

64. Tóquio, Mo Hayder

397 páginas

Tokyo is another of Mo Hayder's deliciously chilling criminal outings, but probably won't produce the frisson of disapproval that such novels as Birdman and The Treatment did. The days are gone when Hayder was identified as one of a cadre of women writers who did something totally unacceptable: produce grisly crime novels quite as unsettling as the products of male imagination. People seem to have finally accepted that the tough crime novel needn't be an exclusively male preserve.Her troubled female protagonist in Tokyo is Grey, haunting the thronging streets of Tokyo in search of an elusive piece of film recording the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. But did the film ever exist? The past is a touchy subject for Grey, with incidents in her own life that she has not yet come to terms with. She ill-advisedly becomes a hostess in a nightclub where the clientele is a tad unsavoury (another example of Hayder utilising real-life crime for her plots, with the echoes of a recent murder case). And Grey finds a lead to her quest: a taciturn survivor of the massacre who is now an academic, with no time for the woman pestering him. But Grey makes progress with him--until she encounters a powerful Godfather figure and his violent associates, with a clandestine source for his well-being a much sought-after elixir. Soon, Grey's life becomes two things: very complicated and a place of considerable danger.

63. Lost in a Good Book

371 páginas

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this - but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why?

62. Cross, James Patterson

309 páginas

The latest powerful thriller about the FBI agent Alex Cross. Alex has quit his job with the FBI but can't seem to stay away. When a series of brutal rapes are committed across Washington and none of the victims will talk, Sampson calls on Alex for help. Alex uses all his skills as a psychologist to persuade one of the women to tell how the attacker scared her into silence. Cross's hunt for the rapist leads him to 'the Irishman' Michael Sullivan, the deadly hitman from his past, who's returned to Washington planning to kill the new mob Don, John Maggione. How many people will meet a gruesome end while the Irishman evades the FBI, the mob hit team and Alex - still haunted by the loss of his first wife and the unsolved mystery of who killed her?

61. A Filha da Minha Melhor Amiga, Dorothy Koomson

349 páginas

A forte relação de amizade entre Kamryn Matika e Adele Brannon, companheiras desde os tempos de faculdade, é destruída num instante de traição que marcará as suas vidas para sempre.Anos depois desse incidente, Kamryn é uma mulher com uma carreira de sucesso, que vive sem ligaçőes pessoais complexas, protegendo-se de todas as desilusőes. Mas eis que, no dia do seu aniversário, Adele a contacta... A amiga de Kamryn está a morrer e implora-lhe que adopte a sua filha, Tegan, fruto da sua ilícita relaçăo de uma noite com Nate.

Terá ela outra escolha? Será o perdão possível? O que estará Kamryn disposta a fazer pela amiga que lhe partiu o coração?

Uma viagem dolorosa e comovente de auto-conhecimento, uma leitura de cortar a respiração.

60. Strange Bedpersons, Jennifer Crusie

249 páginas

Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn't the right guy for her. He's caviar and champagne, she's take-out Chinese pot stickers. He's an uptight Republican lawyer, she was raised in a commune and thinks Cinderella is politically incorrect. He wants to get ahead in business, she just wants . . . him -- only not the social-climbing Nick, but the sweet, caring, unbuttoned-down Nick. And Nick wants her, too, but there's no way Tess is about to play second fiddle to his obsession to make partner. Yet somehow she finds herself agreeing to play his fiancée for a weekend business trip that could make or break Nick's career. And while he's wrapped up in convincing Tess that he needs her in his respectable world, Tess is doing her best to keep her left-wing opinions to herself and her hands off Nick.

59. Perfect Day, Imogen Parker

383 páginas

On a perfect spring morning, Alexander catches an early train into London, but he never reaches work. Instead, he never reaches work. Instead, he spends the day with Kate, a waitress he has met the previous evening, a woman so unlike anyone he has ever known, she makes the world shimmer with possibility.

Such a perfect day, Nell takes her child Lucy to the seaside, hoping that the sea air will blow away the doubts she has about her life.

As Nell ponders why falling in love is so different from loving someone, Alexander allows himself to imagine leaving his old life behind and starting afresh. And by a strange turn of fate, there's an opportunity to do just that - if he chooses to take it...

58. The Cat Who Turned On and Off

186 páginas

Reporter Jim Qwilleran teams up with the brilliant Siamese cat, Koko, and the adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, to investigate Junktown, a haven for antique dealers and collectors, not the dope den Qwilleran anticipated.

57. Um Muro de Silêncio, Karin Slaughter

371 páginas

Sara Linton, pediatra e médica legista em Heartsdale, na Geórgia, conhece demasiado bem os horrores que se podem esconder por detrás das portas fechadas de uma pequena comunidade. Mas quando, certa noite de sábado, uma discussão entre adolescentes, no ringue de patinagem local, leva a uma morte – e a subsequente autópsia revela provas de auto-mutilação ritualista e abuso prolongado – Sara percebe que o verdadeiro mal está mais próximo do que imaginara. Juntando-se ao ex-marido, o chefe da polícia Jeffrey Tolliver, e à detective Lena Adams (ainda traumatizada pelo encontro com um maníaco) numa investigação que a cada passo se revela mais frustrante, face ao silêncio frio das famílias e dos jovens que rodeavam a rapariga assassinada, Sara começa, então, a levantar as várias camadas de uma crueldade desumana que ultrapassa o mero homicídio.Porque uma nuvem ameaçadora se abateu sobre os jovens de Heartsdale, aqueles que os deveriam proteger têm de agir rapidamente antes que toda a inocência seja destruída.

56. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

250 Páginas

Qwilleran is not happy with his new assignment to write about interior decorating in a new weekly magazine. Then someone burgles the residence featured on the front cover and kills the lady of the house. Suddenly, Quill finds himself and his feline friend in the midst of a murder investigation.

55. Sonhos Desfeitos, Maeve Binchy

423 páginas

Evacuada de Londres sob constantes bombardeamentos, a delicada Elizabeth White é enviada para casa dos barulhentos O'Connor na pacata vila de Kilgarret, na Irlanda. É aqui que ela conhece Aisling O'Connor - que virá a tornar-se a sua melhor amiga, partilhará com ela um animal de estimação e ensinar-lhe-á a complexidade do catolicismo. A ousadia de Aisling faz com que Elizabeth se torne mais extrovertida; o seu apoio ajudá-la-á a ultrapassar o fim do casamento dos pais. Em troca, a amizade de Elizabeth ajuda Aisling a suportar um casamento infeliz com um alcoólico. Ao longo dos anos, sempre acreditaram que eram capazes de sobreviver a qualquer coisa desde que se tivessem uma à outra. Agora estão prestes a descobrir se tinham razão...

54. See How They Run

320 Páginas

Outside New York city, the palatial home of Dr. David Strauss's parents is attacked by gunmen during a glittering party. As he watches helplessly, his wife is murdered. In Los Angeles, Strauss's brother is killed during the Academy Award ceremonies. In Manhattan, his past sweetheart, Alix Rothchild, is running for her life. Dr. David Strauss is soon obsessed with finding the explosive secret behind the murders of his family members. His dangerous odyssey takes him across Europe, and finally to the Olympics, where one of the most shattering surprises in suspense fiction will take place.

53. Morte Cega, Karin Slaughter

351 páginas

A pequena cidade de Heartsdale entra em pânico quando Sara Linton, a médica forense da localidade, encontra uma jovem professora morta no bar. Além de ter sido selvaticamente violada, fizeram-lhe profundas incisões em forma de cruz sobre o ventre. Mas é ao começar a autópsia que Sara se dá conta da brutalidade do assassino.Quando uma segunda vítima aparece crucificada uns dias mais tarde, o chefe da polícia Jeffrey Tolliver, o ex-marido de Sara, tem que enfrentar o facto de que a morte da jovem professora não foi um ataque isolado. Trata-se de um sádico violador, que se tornou assassino e que está a aterrorizar a zona. Sara também não consegue escapar ao terror. Um segredo do seu passado pode ser a chave para descobrir o assassino… a menos que ele a encontre primeiro.

52. Goodnight Nobody, Jennifer Weiner

371 páginas

For Kate Klein, semi-accidental mother of three, the unsolved murder of a fellow mother is the most interesting thing to happen since the neighbours cracked their septic tank. Up until then life in suburbia has been distinctly underwhelming. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermums on the playground routinely snub her and her days are filled with an empty routine. At night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety. So, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school, Kate launches a murder investigation of her own. With the help of her best friend, carpet heiress Janie Segal, and former flame, Evan McKenna, she is drawn deep into the dead woman's double life. Suddenly suburbia is not so ordinary after all. Engrossing, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny, "Goodnight Nobody" is another unputdownable, sparkling tale; a quick-witted mystery with a great heart and a narrator you'll never forget .

51. Picture Perfect, Jodi Picoult

369 páginas

To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern is taking shape-a cycle of hurt, denial, and promises, thinly veiled by glamour. Torn between fear and something that resembles love, Cassie wrestles with questions she never dreamed she would face: How can she leave? Then again, how can she stay?

50. A Conspiração, Dan Brown

570 páginas

Quando um satélite da NASA descobre um estranho objecto enterrado nas profundezas do gelo Ártico, a agência espacial vangloria-se de uma vitória de que muito necessita – uma vitória com profundas repercussões para a política interna da NASA e para a futura eleição presidencial. Para verificar a autenticidade da descoberta, a Casa Branca chama a especialista dos Serviços Secretos, Rachel Sexton. Acompanhada por uma equipa de peritos, que conta com o carismático erudito Michael Tolland, Rachel viaja para o Ártico e desvenda o impensável: um fraude científica. Trata-se de uma conspiração audaz para lançar o mundo num vórtice de controvérsia. Mas, antes de avisarem presidente, Rachel e Michael caem na emboscada duma equipa de assassinos. Tentam salvar a vida numa paisagem letal e inóspita, mas a única esperança de sobrevivência é descobrirem o cabecilha desta terrível conspiração. Quando se descobre a verdade, é a mais espantosa conspiração de todas.

49. A Ilha das Três Irmãs, Nora Roberts

300 páginas

Quando Nell Channing chega à acolhedora Ilha das Três Irmãs, acredita que finalmente encontrou um refúgio do seu marido violento... e da vida horrível que levara nos últimos anos.

Mas mesmo nesse lugar calmo e distante, Nell nunca se sente inteiramente à vontade. Escondendo cuidadosamente a sua verdadeira identidade, aceita um lugar como cozinheira num café e começa a explorar os seus sentimentos pelo simpático xerife da ilha. Mas há uma parte de si que ela nunca lhe poderá revelar, pois tem de guardar alguns segredos se quer manter o passado longe de si. Uma palavra a mais... e a sua nova vida tão cuidadosamente montada pode despedaçar-se.

E quando Nell começa a questionar-se se alguma vez será capaz de se libertar do seu medo, apercebe-se de que a ilha sofre de uma terrível maldição que só pode ser desfeita pelas descendentes das Três Irmãs: as bruxas que se instalaram na ilha em 1692. Então, com a ajuda de outras duas mulheres talentosas e determinadas – e com os pesadelos do passado a atormentarem-na constantemente – ela tem que encontrar a força para salvar o seu lar, o seu amor e a sua vida.

48. Chase, Dean Koontz

212 páginas

Vietnam War veteran Ben Chase has only bitter memories, a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him.

47. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, Lilian Jackson Braun

191 páginas

A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalised paintings, a fatal fall - this is not what Jim Qwilleran expects when he turns his reportorial talents to art. But with his partner, Koko the Siamese cat, he sniffs out clues and confounds criminals intent on mayhem and murder.

46. Blow Fly, Patricia Cornwell

465 páginas

Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life. 'All of Cornwell's books run on high octane fuel, a cocktail of adrenalin and fear . such is her grip on her audience and such is her ability to suck you into her hermetic, claustrophobic world that Scarpetta's tension becomes the reader's.

45. Sex, Lies, and Online Dating

352 páginas

Lucy Rothschild has come up with a daring way of doing research for her newest mystery novel. Since her female serial killer meets her victims online, Lucy does the same. The men who respond to her e-mails and meet her in the Boise Starbucks provide excellent fodder, as well as verisimilitude. Finally Lucy only needs one more victim. Unbeknownst to her, Quinn McIntyre is actually an undercover detective trying to stop a serial killer. One thing the victims all have in common is that they are part of the online dating scene. As Quinn chats with Lucy, it becomes apparent that she is lying and that she knows way too much about police procedure. Lucy begins to fall for him, and Quinn falls for her, believing all the while that she's the killer. How Lucy's novel reads and how the serial killer's MO are so alike is just one of the fascinating aspects of Gibson's latest delightful page-turner. The others are her truly appealing and convincing characters.

44. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

521 páginas

Na Primavera de 1974, Calliope Stephanides, estudante num colégio de raparigas em Grosse Pointe, Michigan, vê-se irresistivelmente atraída por uma colega de turma arruivada, fumadora compulsiva, com um dom para as artes dramáticas. A paixão que se desenvolve secretamente entre as duas, bem como o não-desenvolvimento de Callie, leva-a a desconfiar que não é uma rapariga igual às outras. Na verdade, não é rapariga nenhuma. A explicação para este alarmante estado de coisas reside numa mutação genética rara, e num segredo inconfessado, que perseguiu os avós de Callie desde o desmoronamento do Império Otomano à Detroit dos anos vinte, passando pelos gloriosos tempos da Motor City, pelos motins raciais de 1967, até à segunda migração da família para um país estrangeiro num subúrbio da cidade. Graças ao gene, Callie é em parte rapariga, em parte rapaz. E embora as viagens épicas do gene tenham terminado, a sua odisseia individual ainda mal começou.

43. Love Rules, Freya North

422 páginas

An intelligent, sexy novel about best friends, about settling down and about throwing it all away! When you fall in love do you follow your heart or use your head? Thea Luckmore believes in love - the magic spark of true, old-fashioned, romantic love. She's determined only ever to fall head over heels, or rather, heart over head. Alice Heggarty, her best friend, is always falling in lust - with dashing rogues who invariably break her heart. As yet another disastrous relationship ends, Alice makes a decision. It's time to marry and she knows just the man. For Thea, Saul Mundy promises to be the perfect fit and Thea finds herself falling in love and loving it. But though newly wed Alice encourages Thea to settle down and conform, she finds that she's not as keen as she thought on playing by the rules. Alice starts to break them left, right and centre! At the same time, Thea's world, in which love reigns supreme, is shaken to core. When it comes to love, should you listen to your head, your heart, or your best friend?

42. Mary, Mary, James Patterson

312 páginas

Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A list. FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation in Disneyland when he gets the call. A well-known actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterwards, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murder in shocking detail, signed Mary Smith. Her calling card More killings follow, with emails immediately after. Mary Smith is targeting Hollywood stars and powerbrokers, and she is getting better every time. Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever confronted. People make enemies easily in Hollywood. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more terrifying? 'You've got mail' Members of the A-list fear they're Mary's next target, and the case grows into blockbuster proportions as Cross and the LAPD scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.

41. Improvável, Adam Fawer

460 páginas

Espionagem, máfia russa, póquer e o cálculo das probabilidades… Um thriller explosivo de cortar a respiração!O que é que têm em comum a física quântica, a máfia russa, o cálculo das probabilidades, a teoria da relatividade, o póquer, a epilepsia e a espionagem?... Um teorema matemático! A estranha viagem de um homem muito para além dos limites do possível.

David Caine é epiléptico, mas com uma extraordinária capacidade para a matemática e para o cálculo mental, e passa todas as noites a jogar póquer. Mas Caine é um homem atreito a ataques epilépticos incapacitantes e, certa noite, comete um dispendioso erro de cálculo, sofrendo a convulsão mais grave que alguma vez tivera. E perde o controlo da sua vida.Desesperado por recuperar o equilíbrio, concorda em participar nos testes de uma droga experimental com enervantes efeitos secundários. Subitamente tem visões do passado, do presente e do futuro; ou está a vislumbrar uma realidade alternativa, ou está à beira do precipício de um colapso psicótico. A química e o destino conluiaram-se para conceder a David Caine a espantosa capacidade de prever as consequências das suas acções e as probabilidades dos vários resultados; tanto dos bons como dos terríveis.Mas com este “dom” vem um grave perigo, pois ele não é o único a conhecer o seu segredo. Poderes assustadores que operam na sombra, querem controlá-lo, forçando Caine a procurar a ajuda da mais improvável das aliadas – uma bela agente renegada da CIA, especializada nas artes da morte – numa corrida desesperada pela sobrevivência, com a sanidade segura pelo mais frágil dos fios.

40. Self Defense, Jonathan Kellerman

511 páginas

"Dr Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he's prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing.

Now Lucy's dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real.

Something like murder..."

39. No Place Like Home, Mary Higgins Clark

467 páginas

"Liza Barclay, aged 10, shot her mother while trying to protect her from her violent stepfather, ex-FBI agent Charley Foster. Despite her stepfather's claim that it was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Foster and tabloids compared Liza to the infamous murderess, Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity in name. Growing up with adoptive parents who tried to erase every trace of her past, her name is changed to Celia. Always, though, the fear hung over her and the family - that someday, her vengeful stepfather would reappear to harm her. Aged 25, a successful interior designer, she marries a childless sixty-year old widower and they have a son. Before their marriage, she had confided her earlier life to her husband. Two years on, on his deathbed, he tells her that he would want her to re-marry, but makes her swear never to reveal her past to anyone, so that their son would not carry the burden of this family tragedy - a promise that plunges her into a new cycle of violence. Three years later, happily re-married, Celia is shocked when her second husband presents her with a gift -- the house where she killed her mother. When the real estate agent who has made the sale recognises her and, soon after, is murdrered, Celia is accused of the crime. Once again, she is home -- the place where she is stamped as a murderess."

38. Fortaleza Digital, Dan Brown

443 páginas

"Quando o ultra-secreto e invencível descriptador da NSA, o Crivo, se depara com uma mensagem indecifrável criada por um "anjo caído" da própria agência, o director de operações recorre à brilhante criptógrafa Susan Fletcher e ao seu noivo, um professor de Literatura, para o ajudarem a desvendar o mistério. Qual será a natureza do terrível código que tomou a NSA como refém? E terá David Becker êxito na sua demanda por um misterioso anel? Apanhada numa vertiginosa rede de secretismos e mentiras, Susan tenta desesperadamente salvar a agência em que acredita e, mais tarde, a própria vida e a do homem que ama. Mas será essa a resposta para a segurança universal? Chegando o momento da verdade, "quem guardará os guardas"?"

37. Getting Rid of Bradley, Jennifer Crusie

248 páginas

"A rollicking contemporary romance follows Lucy Savage as she goes up against her cheating ex-husband, recovers from a horrid dye job that has left her hair green, and joins forces with sexy cop Zack Warren when someone tries to kill her."

36. The Burning Girl, Mark Billingham

419 páginas

"Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and claiming that he is the one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. He's up to his neck in an investigation into a series of killings, which appears to be the result of a turf war between rival gangs, and he's fed up to the gills with reporting to DCI Tughan, so helping Carol out looks like a good deed in a naughty world. Only the world is about to turn much nastier, so nasty in fact that he finds himself longing for a straightforward psycopath to hunt down."

35. Diário de uma Mãe, James Patterson

237 páginas

"Do autor de Alex Cross, o detective psicanalista que a América tão bem conhece, protagonista de sete thrillers que se tornaram bestsellers, chega Diário de Uma Mãe, um intenso romance que nos envolve numa apaixonante história de amor. Katie trabalha numa prestigiada editora em Nova Iorque quando conhece Matt, o homem perfeito em tudo o que ela tinha imaginado e que está à sua frente a pedir-lhe que ela publique o seu livro de contos. O amor entre os dois inevitavelmente acontece e uma vibrante relação é vivida ao longo de onze meses. Mas um dia, sem explicação, ele desaparece deixando apenas um diário, escrito por uma mulher chamada Suzanne. Recentemente mãe, Suzanne descrevia como conheceu o pai do seu filho Nicholas, quais as suas perspectivas de família e esperanças de casamento e como se sentia feliz em ter uma criança na vida dela. Ao ler este comovente documento Katie percebeu que o homem que a tinha acabado de deixar era o marido e o pai desta jovem família. Estranhamente surpreendida será que o seu amor resistirá ao choque?"

34. Plain Truth, Jodi Picoult

451 páginas

"The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and, for the first time in her high profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep into the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. As she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life."

33. Little Earthquakes, Jennifer Weiner

414 páginas

"First comes love. Then comes marriage. And then things start to get really interesting... In Good in Bed, Cannie Shapiro conquered public heartbreak and shaky self-esteem. In In Her Shoes, Rose and Maggie Feller learned about family secrets and the ties that bind. Now, in Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet, this highly acclaimed storyteller brings readers a tale of romance, friendship, forgiveness, and extreme sleep deprivation, as three very different women navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood. Rebecca Rothstein-Rabinowitz is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband, supportive friends, a restaurant that's received citywide acclaim, a beautiful baby girl...and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly Day's life looks picture-perfect. But behind the doors of her largely empty apartment, she's struggling to balance work and motherhood and marriage, while entering Oliver's every move (and movement) on a spreadsheet, and dealing with an unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. And Ayinde Towne is already on shaky ground, trying to live her life to the letter of a how-to guide called Baby Success, when her basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at the most vulnerable moment in her life, putting their marriage in peril -- and their new family even more in the public eye. Then there's Lia Frederick, a Philadelphia native who has just come home, leaving Los Angeles behind, along with her glamorous Hollywood career, her husband, and a tragic secret, to start her life all over again. With her trademark warmth and humor, Weiner tells the story of what happens after happily ever after...and how an eight-pound bundle of joy can shake up every woman's sense of herself in the world around her. From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, from sisters and husbands to mothers and mothers-in-law, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive Diaper Genie-eye view of the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage."

32. A Mulher do Piloto, Anita Shreve

251 páginas

"Uma variante mais moderna da obra Vol de Nuit, de Saint-Exupéry, contada do ponto de vista da mulher, o novo romance de Anita Shreve explora numa prosa calma e clara o desejo autodestrutivo de um homem por um mundo para lá do quotidiano... Como o avião da história de Saint-Exupéry a alma deste piloto parece ter terminado a correr sobre o vazio.Anita Shreve alterna cenas do passado e do presente, à medida que Kathryn tenta resolver o mistério da morte de Jack, enquanto é perseguida pelo escrutínio público. O suspense da narrativa aumenta ao vermos a curiosidade urgente de Kathryn contrapor-se ao seu instinto protector. Ler este romance é como desenrolar uma meada. É essencialmente um mistério. O tratamento dado pela autora ao dilema de Kathryn, juntamente com as intrigantes personagens secundárias e um enredo magistralmente ritmado, fazem com que a Mulher do Piloto consiga de facto levantar voo."

31. The Husband, Dean Koontz

400 páginas

"It's another boring day in paradise for gardener Mitch Rafferty, planting impatiens on a rich client's lawn. Then his cell rings. It's Holly, his wife, and she doesn't sound good. Someone slaps her, she screams, and a man comes on to tell Mitch that he has 60 hours to raise $2 million to ransom her. Just so Mitch knows they mean business, the man says, see the guy walking a dog across the street? Mitch looks and blam! A bullet to the head kills the dog walker. Let this be a warning, too, that the kidnapper-killers will know if Mitch says word one to the cops about his predicament, and Holly will suffer. Where is a gardener supposed to get $2 million? The sinister caller says he'll let Mitch know; just be a good machine and follow instructions. Despite his terror, Mitch does until . . . But uh-uh-uh, nothing should be given away about this sinuous nail-biter's developments. Suffice it to say that Mitch's intensely warped family, managed according to his rigidly materialistic psychologist-father's theories; two betrayals, one of Mitch, the other of the kidnappers; a slick child pornography entrepreneur; a humane but persistent police detective; and a New Ager psychopath all help ratchet up the suspense and the violence. But Koontz focuses relentlessly on Mitch and, in chapters scattered judiciously throughout the latter 230 pages, Holly. Not for him the flirtation with evil thinking that an Elmore Leonard does so well or the temptation to sympathize with evildoers that an Alfred Hitchcock offers. And yet Koontz is no less an artist for his championing of the good and his determination to have readers identify with it, as this hair-raising thriller attests."

30. A Lição de Italiano, Maeve Binchy

328 páginas

"O curso nocturno de italiano da Escola de Mountainview em Dublin assemelha-se a centenas de outros que estão a ter início por toda a cidade. Mas aquele é especial no que respeita às várias esperanças e sonhos que tanto professores como estudantes acalentam. Todos eles estão ansiosos por uma vida nova e quando o grupo parte para a viagem de fim de curso a Itália, um surpreendente número dessas esperanças e sonhos concretiza-se de modo estranho e inesperado... e as suas vidas sofrem uma transformação definitiva."

29. The Carousel, Rosamunde Pilcher

184 páginas

"Prue is intelligent, artistic, independent - and bored. Pressurized by her mother to make a conventional and dull marriage, she is delighted to escape London and seek retreat with her eccentric and bohemian aunt in Cornwall.
A chance encounter with an attractive young artist on the sea shore leads to day after idyllic summer's day of exploring the Cornish countryside and coast. But there is something troubling Daniel and Prue, now deeply entangled, feels compelled to discover what it is."

28. The Conspiracy Club, Jonathan Kellerman

374 páginas

"When psychologist Dr. Jeremy Carrier's romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, he is left emotionally devastated and being watched by police seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved killing. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work. But when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion, the suspicion surrounding Jeremy intensifies and the only way for him to prove his innocence is to follow the trail of a cunning psychopath. Spurring on Jeremy's investigation is Dr. Arthur Chess, an enigmatic pathologist who draws Jeremy into the confidence of a cryptic society devoted to matters unknown and unspoken. But when Arthur suddenly slips away, Jeremy is left to contend with an onslaught of anonymous clues - and the growing realization that a harrowing game of cat and mouse has been started."

27. Manual de Infidelidade para Jovens Pais, Mark Barrowcliffe

335 páginas

"Do autor de A Namorada 44, chega-nos agora este Manual de Infidelidade para Jovens Pais, um inteligente e divertido olhar sobre os desafios sexuais e a angústia emocional de um trintão londrino a braços com as escolhas da vida adulta.Algo está errado na vida de Stewart Dagman. O mundo à sua volta avança e Dag quer avançar com ele. Afinal, os seus sonhos são até bastante concretizáveis: ele quer alguém a quem amar, constituir uma família e ter uma vida sexual indecorosamente estimulante. Quer, em suma, dar um sentido à sua existência. O que acontece então quando os seus sonhos se realizam? E no prazo de uma semana?Uma obra que nos mostra inequívoca e despudoradamente a maneira como o homem moderno lida com as namoradas, a paternidade, a amizade, o casamento, os pais… e outros personagens nem sempre desejados, tais como gangsters com nomes tipo Dave, o Lésbico. "

26. End in Tears, Ruth Rendell

328 páginas

"A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a cause for concern. Living alone with her two children, she is pregnant again. What will happen to the child? The relationship between father and daughter has always been uneasy. But the current situation also provokes an emotional division between Wexford and his wife, Dora. One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend and partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence and humanity that make Ruth Rendell's detective stories enthralling, exciting and very touching."

25. Honeymoon, James Patterson

311 páginas

Anyone who has missed good suspense novels should put Honeymoon on their list straight away. James Patterson has always been fascinated by serial killers, yet he has tended in the past to stick with the boys; in Nora Sinclair, he and Howard Roughan create a classic Black Widow, who kills her suitors and husbands for their wealth. John O'Hara knows most of the truth about Nora, but until his investigations get close to her, he has no idea of just how much charisma and appeal she brings to the job of murder. And Nora, thinking him just an insurance agent, is surprised by how much she thinks about him, and not necessarily as a future victim. There is a quirky romance here, full of lies and deceit and also genuine feeling and a sense of menacing jeopardy for both viewpoint characters. The story-telling is Patterson's usual fast-paced staccato narration, but it has time for some interesting side-bar issues--there are things in both Nora and John's pasts and presents which only gradually come to our attention.

24. A Desirable Residence, Madeleine Wickham

287 páginas

"Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They'd stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project - well, Liz thought it exciting - buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn't sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway.Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and at first it seemed he would solve all their problems. Marcus, senior partner in Silchester's leading estate agency, was large, assured, and wore an expensive overcoat. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything was going to be OK.But soon Marcus found himself involved with Liz in a way he'd never intended. Keeping his adulterous trysts secret from Anthea was uncomfortably easy - most of the time her head was firmly buried in Improve your Child's IQ. Meanwhile, as Liz was lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan was left to run the tutorial college. Neither of them had time to notice that teenage Alice was developing a desperate passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone seemed to be entangled with everyone else, in the most awkward possible way. And as events closed in on him, Marcus began to realise that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home."

23. The Gatecrasher, Madeleine Wickham

301 páginas

"Fleur is beautiful but lazy and, at forty, spends her life looking for rich men who can provide her and her teenage daughter with a glamorous and effortless existence. A daily trawl through the court pages of The Times provides her with an unusual but fertile search area - the funerals and memorial services of the great and good, where gatecrashers are so much less noticeable than they would be at a wedding or a christening.It is at one of these sad but oddly festive occasions that she meets Richard, dull but well-off, whose mousey wife has died after a lifetime of enjoyable ill-health. Before long Fleur has become an integral part of Richard's life, offending his friends, interfering in his leisure pursuits (golf bores her, so why should he spend so much time on it?) and stirring up his grown-up children to behave badly."

22. A Vida Secreta das Abelhas

285 páginas

"Um romance sobre o poder transcendente do amor e a faceta feminina de Deus. Uma história que as mães gostarão de contar às filhas.

Lily cresceu na convicção de que, acidentalmente, matou a mãe quando tinha apenas quatro anos. Do que então aconteceu, ela tem não só as suas próprias recordações mas também o relato do pai. Agora, aos catorze anos, tem saudades da mãe, a quem mal conheceu mas de quem recorda a ternura, e sente uma desesperada necessidade de perdão. Vive com o pai, violento e autoritário, numa quinta da Carolina do Sul, e tem apenas uma amiga, Rosaleen, uma criada negra cujo semblante severo esconde um coração doce. Na década de 60, a Carolina do Sul é um sítio onde a segregação é ainda realidade. Quando, ao tentar fazer valer o seu recém- -conquistado direito de voto, Rosaleen é presa e espancada, Lily decide agir. Fugidas à justiça e ao pai de Lily, elas seguem o rasto deixado por uma mulher que morreu dez anos antes e encontram refúgio na casa de três excêntricas irmãs apicultoras. Para Lily esta vai ser uma viagem de descoberta, não só do mundo, mas também do mistério que envolve o passado de sua mãe.

A Vida Secreta das Abelhas é um romance sobre o poder transcendente do amor e a faceta feminina de Deus. Sue Monk Kidd, ao escrever sobre o que é misterioso, e até difícil, na vida, ilumina tudo o que esta tem de maravilhoso. Ela prova que uma família pode ser encontrada nos sítios menos prováveis – talvez não sob o nosso próprio tecto, mas no sítio mágico onde encontramos o amor."

21. Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier

321 páginas

"A welcome return to a writer whose last book, the much loved and admired Girl With a Pearl Earring has been such an outstanding success. 1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. One had a large urn -- some might say ridiculously large -- and the other, almost leaning over the first, an angel -- some might say overly sentimental. The two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided even more by social class than by taste. They would certainly never have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And furthermore -- and even more unsuitably -- become involved in the life of the gravedigger's muddied son. As the girls grow up, as the century wears on, as the new era and the new King change social customs, the lives and fortunes of the Colemans and the Waterhouses become more and more closely intertwined -- neighbours in life as well as death."

20. The Vanished Man, Jeffery Deaver

528 páginas

"When a gifted illusionist turns his hand to violent death, The Vanished Man is only one of a series of classic conjuring tricks that paralysed forensic investigator Lincoln Rhyme finds himself having to understand. More important even than the details of technique which Lincoln and his partner Amelia are taught by young illusionist Kara are the conjuror's habits of mind--misdirection piled on deceit piled on false leads. It is not just sleight of hand that deceives the eye; it is where the eye is tricked into looking. Is the killer who calls himself Malerik just after a sequence of showy violent deaths, or is that what he wants Lincoln to think?

This is an impressive addition to Deaver's much-praised sequence of novels about Lincoln and Amelia simply because they find themselves up against an equally intelligent killer with radically different ways of thinking. Their habits of logic and science and legwork are of limited use against someone who constantly stretches the limits of the improbable. Jeffrey Deaver has always been an ingenious thriller writer and this book returns to the sardonic wit of his earliest work as he too engages in endless trickery and confusion of our expectations."

19. Mercy, Jodi Picoult

400 páginas

"Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy.
Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie -- seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he'd grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. And when an inexplicable attraction leads to a shocking betrayal, Allie faces the hardest questions of the heart: when does love cross the line of moral obligation? And what does it mean to truly love another?"

18. O Código Stravinci, Toby Clements

220 páginas

"Já leu o livro «O Código da Vinci» (pois claro, quem é que ainda não o leu)?
Ainda não viu o filme (é natural, só chega aos cinemas em Maio)?
Então, antes de o ver, não deixe de ler «O Código Stravinci», uma sátira ao best-seller de Dan Brown para rir e chorar por mais…
A primeira e única paródia ao best-seller mundial O Código da Vinci.

Um morto, vários enigmas e a misteriosa Ordem de Psião… Descodificar o complexo Código Stranvinci poderá transformar por completo a face do mundo…
O Código Stravinci, como o título indicia, é uma paródia a O Código da Vinci, um decalque, em versão humorística, da trama conspirativa do livro de Dan Brown. Criando diálogos hilariantes e absurdos, o autor deixa-se levar pelo delírio, mas sem nunca perder de vista a associação do seu Código ao Código original – na definição das personagens, no corrupio entre as cidades europeias (neste caso, Bruxelas, Luxemburgo e Londres), no decifrar das pistas e na solução final do enigma. Para quem leu O Código da Vinci, O Código Stravinci é de leitura obrigatória.

Um homicídio muito desagradável aponta para vários sinistros e importantes mistérios que mudarão o mundo... Para grande surpresa do leitor, O Código Stravinci é também um thriller erudito e cheio de ritmo sobre o secretismo, a vingança, a literatura, o amor, as paisagens, a memória e muitos outros temas que vão surgindo. E desbrava novos territórios para as teorias da conspiração e, por mais extraordinário que pareça, não fala de Leonardo da Vinci..."

17. Tão Veloz como o Desejo, Laura Esquível

128 páginas

"Júbilo veio ao mundo com um imenso sorriso e o dom de ouvir as palavras que habitam no coração das pessoas que o rodeiam. Era ainda menino e – ao servir de intérprete entre a avó, orgulhosa representante do povo Maia, e a mãe, de língua espanhola – já adoçava as palavras amargas que ambas trocavam, conseguindo que desse ódio nascesse respeito e amor.
No México dos anos vinte, Júbilo é já um homem e trabalha como telegrafista, ocupação que lhe permite fazer bom uso do seu Dom, pois continua a ajudar as pessoas a revelarem o que lhes vai na alma, reescrevendo as mensagens que enviam. A felicidade plena chega quando Júbilo conhece Lucha, por quem se apaixona perdidamente. Enfeitiçados um pelo outro, casam e vivem uma vida de sonho.
Muitos anos passados, o telégrafo está abandonado, obsoleto que é como forma de comunicação; e Júbilo, solitário no seu leito de morte, onde jaz cego e mudo, sofre ainda com a tragédia que um dia o afastou da mulher, o seu grande e único amor.
Que acontecimento trágico poderá ter-se interposto entre os dois amantes, provocando um dano tão irreparável?
Mas Luvia, a filha de ambos, nascida já após essa inexplicável tragédia familiar, não vai descansar enquanto não desenterrar o fantasma do passado e desvendar o que está por detrás dessa história de paixão e amargura."